Word: toye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...response to "the resurgence of religious feeling and practice in America today,", the Ideal Toy Co. is putting on sale a kneejointed doll that can be made to "kneel in a praying position." <| Religious and economic booms in the postwar U.S. have brought no material gain to clergymen, the National Council of the Churches of Christ reports. Congregational ministers now average $3,313 a year (up from $1,769 in 1939) and United Presbyterian ministers $3,709 (up from $1,979). Allowing for inflation, says the council, the raises leave the ministers a few dollars a month behind where they...
Triple Threat. In St. Louis, in three robbery attempts in one month, John Wisdom Wallace 1) tried to hold up a grill with a toy pistol, fled empty-handed when a waitress threw a glass of water at him; 2) tried to rob a confectionery, fled empty-handed when the proprietor shot at him; 3) tried to hold up another confectionery, was tackled by 74-year-old Owner Arnold Barnes, who sat on Wallace until the police arrived...
...late Dictator Jorge Ubico his men submerged political enemies in electric-shock baths and perfected a head-shrinking steel skull cap to pry loose secrets and crush improper political thoughts. Whatever else Linares' appointment meant, it suggested that Castillo Armas' latest command decision was not to toy with the enemy forces but to erase them...
Once a Musicians' Union man was asked if a harmonica was a musical instrument. "Certainly not," he answered. "It's a toy." But what about Larry Adler? "Oh." said the union man, "he's a freak...
...recent fiction: a four-inch china doll. Impunity, like Ibsen's Nora, rebels against the doll's house, so Author Godden (The River, Black Narcissus) treats her to a high old time as the mascot of a bunch of boys who send her aloft with a toy balloon, spin her on a Catherine wheel and race her across a pond in a toy yacht...